Thepchaiya Un-Nooh trashes Hossein Vafaei Ayouri to lift 7-Nation International Snooker Championship
After a tremendous comeback from 5-3, Thailand’s Thepchaiya Un-Nooh was able to beat the Iranian National Champion Hossein Vafaei Ayouri by the score line of 7-6 after a close competition in the final clash of 2012 Jubilee Insurance 7-Nationa International
Snooker Championship at the Pearl Continental Hotel arena in Karachi, Pakistan.
Both cuemen entered the arena with the hopes to claim the title as they played brilliantly in the tournament. They were two of the top contenders to claim the title along with Pakistan’s Muhammad Sajjad and Muhammad Asif. The pair reached the quarter-final
stage after showing tremendous game play in the first two rounds of the event.
Ayouri faced Pakistan’s Abdul Sattar in the quarters and defeated him by a whitewash score line of 5-0. Abdul Sattar had no chance to add even a single frame against him. The young Iranian easily made his way into the semi-final stage of the tournament where
he was up against the former Pakistani National Snooker Champion, Muhammad Sajjad.
Ayouri’s match-up against Sajjad was a tussling encounter as both potters went neck-and-neck from the start of the match. Sajjad played up to the mark and reached 5-5 level but Ayouri managed to take advantage of Sajjad’s miss and won the penultimate match
6-5 to set up an Un-Nooh final clash.
Un-Nooh, on the other hand, played against compatriot Noppon Saengkham in the quarter-final. The Thai duo had a close match but Un-Nooh was able to win 5-4 to set up a Muhammad Asif semi-final match. The current Pakistan National Champion, Asif was in good
form but failed to improvise against the Thai potter and tumbled down easily by 6-2.
The Iranian potter had a tremendous start in the final match against Un-Nooh and grabbed a string position in the very first session of the match with a 1-3 lead over the Thai potter. He continued his dominance in the second session and finished with a two-frame
lead at 3-5. However, after that he could not maintain his lead over the Thai potter and made a couple of silly mistakes to tumble down 7-6 in the end.
Tags: